Culturicide, Resistance, and Survival of the Lakota ("Sioux Nation")

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Taylor & Francis, 1998 - History - 422 pages
This ground-breaking work develops theories and methods of analyzing the United States' domination of Native Americans through a study of the Lakota society known as the Sioux Nation of Indians. Two centuries of struggle between nations and cultures during the U.S. expansion over North America are described utilizing policy (BIA) and cross-cultural (US-Lakota) history, with insightful additions to understanding the Tetonwan-Sioux. Contributing new forms of analysis to the study of attempted domination and destruction of Native American societies, the author explores the concept of culturicide in relation to theories of genocide and cultural domination. He links resistance by traditionalists and activists to cultural survival in charts of U.S. and Lakota policies and counter-policies. The study provides maps to identify struggles over land, and shows how social institutions have been used to attack Lakota culture. The author provides documented recent events to illustrate contemporary Lakota social life, often from an insider's point of view. The work provides a framework for understanding similar conflicts for other Native Nations. Also includes maps. James Fenelon is Dakota/Lakota, and is Assistant Professor of Sociology at John Carroll University. Bibliography. Index.
 

Contents

Lakota Oyate
3
Culturicide Processes over Native Nations
25
Comparative and Case Study Methods of Analysis
83
Great Sioux Nation of the Lakota
129
Ghost Dance Revitalization
163
Repression of the Ghost Dance
191
U S Policy and Lakota Resistance
217
1890 1990
222
Spirituality and Sovereignty
287
Doc Elders Statement to SunDancers at Prairie Island
289
Declaration of War Against Exploiters of Lakota Spirituality
295
the Lakota Nation
303
Doc Statement of Vision Toward the Next 500 Years
310
Model American Indian Urban Assimilation Continuum
315
Lakota Culturicide Native Nations
319
Chart Policies and Practices of Culturicide
326

Lakota Cultural Survival
253
Chart 20th Century Policy and Social Structures
256
Model Social System Intended Results Type of Dominance
266
Policies Resistance Responses
274
Chart Cultural Survival and Policy Resistance
277
Map Ethnic Conflict of Lakota Oyate 19701990
286
Model Cultural Affinity and Dominant Ideologies
338
Model Participatory Frame Analysis
340
BibliographyReferences
351
Endnotes
377
Index
417
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